Directed by:
David MackenzieScreenplay:
Kim Fupz AakesonCinematography:
Giles NuttgensComposer:
Max RichterCast:
Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Denis Lawson, Richard Mack, Alastair Mackenzie, Anamaria Marinca (more)Plots(1)
Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around them seems to be falling apart. (official distributor synopsis)
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Steven Soderbergh (Contagion) is much better because he takes a stark, pragmatic, factual approach. David Mackenzie wants to grasp the entire thing in a purely emotional and philosophical way, but he doesn't quite succeed, as we learn almost nothing and he just muses idly to the accompaniment of ethereal music, so the whole thing feels strange. Plus points for the atypical film contribution and a naked Eva Green, otherwise nothing great.
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The person who wrote the official distributor’s text must have lost all his senses (including his sixth sense), but mainly his common sense. Or else deep down he must really hate this movie. Which is equally as unlikely as someone sincerely loving Perfect Sense; originality and form are pushed too much at the expense of everything else for somebody to love this. It is more interesting (and has too many loose ends) than actually good; but luckily it is interesting in just the right way.
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Remember One by Metallica? What if all people ended up like that? A great idea to depict a relationship beginning in a world slowly heading towards collapse where people entertain the false hope that things will get better. Both Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are great, even though they eat soap. The only thing that bothered me is that the movie wasn’t devoted only to those two (documentary shots from around the world), or that they didn’t show several stories taking place in various places around the planet.
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The topic was good; when I read the blurb about it I was looking forward to watching. Unfortunately, I found the treatment very disappointing; I didn’t like it. The first half of the movie came over all comical and confused. The other half began to take off and was significantly better, but no good enough to make up for the beginning. I’m quite surprised at the high rating (76%); I found this movie absolutely mediocre.
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Perfect Sense is a more philosophical version of Soderberg’s Contagion, but with more modest production. With the
exception of the nicely done ending, however, it is just as cold and detached, which is not the best choice, given the
film’s focus on the two central characters (and their relationship).
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